BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1464587:Event:175383 DTSTAMP:20260418T000513Z SUMMARY:Alexis Madrigal reads at Writers With Drinks! DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks, San Francisco's longest running spoke n word variety show, goes further than it's ever gone before! When: Sa turday, March 9, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM Who: Ale xis Madrigal, Jai Arun Ravine, Phil Lapsley and Clarisse Thorn! Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC About the writers/readers: Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor for The Atlantic where he launched their new Techology Channel. He is the lead writer as well as host. A lexis is co-creator of Longshot magazine, a publication created in 48 hours with the help of new internet tools and hundreds of people submi tting content thru the internet. The magazine was awarded the 2010 Kni ght-Batten Award for innovation. Alexis is author of Powering the Drea m: The History and Promise of Green Technology, and of the website gre entechhistory.com, the book's ongoing project site. His research is re covering amazing stories of green technological experimentation from t he past and he explains why these stories matter: many of them were fo rks in the road on the way to our present society and they demonstrate what is possible. Chosen as Required Reading by Outside magazine. Ale xis Madrigal is a senior editor for The Atlantic where he launched the ir new Techology Channel. He is the lead writer as well as host. Alexi s is co-creator of Longshot magazine, a publication created in 48 hour s with the help of new internet tools and hundreds of people submittin g content thru the internet. The magazine was awarded the 2010 Knight- Batten Award for innovation. Formerly at Wired.com, Alexis followed sc ience and technology for Wired.com and was a major contributor to its blog Wired Science. Jai Arun Ravine is a text-based artist working in video, movement and performance. Most recently they are the author of a book of experimental poetics, แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE (Tinfish Press, 2011); the creator of a film project on Thai and Thai American trans-masculinities, TOM/TRANS/THAI, which screened at the Bangkok Ar t & Culture Centre (Bangkok, Thailand) and the Sabina Lee Gallery (Los Angeles); and the creator of a multi-media performance on identity to urism, THE PACKAGE TOUR, which was staged at Subterranean Arthouse (Be rkeley) and the African American Art & Culture Complex (San Francisco) . A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung, Djerassi and Kundiman, Jai is a staff writer for Lantern Review. Phil Lapsley is the author of E xploding The Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell. Lapsley has spent the last several years documenting t he history of phone phreaking through hundreds of interviews, document searches, and Freedom of Information act requests. He has been interv iewed by National Public Radio and the BBC and quoted in multiple news papers, including the New York Times, on the topic. He has also presen ted on phone phreaking history at the 10th Annual Vintage Computer Fes tival and at The Last HOPE conference. Clarisse Thorn's books include Confessions of a Pickup Artist: Long Interviews with Hideous Men, Viol ation: Rape in Gaming, and The S&M Feminist: Best of Clarisse Thorn. T horn is also a regular blogger at the website clarissethorn.com. She i s also the co-creator of the Sex+++ Positive Documentary film series i n Chicago, that shows a documentary at the Jane Addams Hull-House Muse um every second Tuesday of the month. About Writers With Drinks: Write rs With Drinks won \"Best Literary Night\" from the SF Bay Guardian re aders' poll six years in a row and was named \"Best Literary Drinking\ " by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead Maupin's lates t Tales of the City novel. The spoken word \"variety show\" mixes genr es to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show incl udes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, myste ry, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeli ng format.\n\nFor more information visit https://trueskool.com/events/ alexis-madrigal-reads-at-writers-with-drinks DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130309T213000 CATEGORIES:san, francisco, ca LOCATION:San Francisco, CA WEBSITE:http://www.makeoutroom.com URL:http://www.makeoutroom.com CONTACT:415-647-2888 ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/Charl ieJaneAnders ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":https://trueskool.com/profile/CharlieJaneAnders END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR